Improvement in butter-excavator



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EATON, OFMONTANA,1OwA.-v

Letters Patent No. 98,938, dated .Tannat/ry 18, 1870.

`IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTER-EXCAVATOR.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

l Toall whom it may concern Beit known that I, N. J. EATON, of Montana, Vin the county of Boone, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in' Butter-Excavator and Print; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a detail sectional View of my improved device. l

Figure 2 is au under-side View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to buttercutters, and consists in an article of sector-form, adapted to cut a section from a round mass, without leaviugbits or ends behind.

A are the straight sides, and B is the curved side of a cup, made in the sha-pe of a sector of a circle. The straight sides of the cup should be of about the length of the radii of the irkin, tuh,or jar, in which the butter is packed, and the depth of the cup should be such that the cup vmay contain apiece of butter of suitahlesize and form for the table. The cup may be made of such a size as to contain exactly half a pound,

or a pound, or any other determined quantity, as may be desired.

C is a plate, made of such a size as to fit into the cup A B. Upon the lower part of the plate C is formed a device to be imprinted upon the butter.

To the middle part of the plate C is attached arod, D, extending up through the top of the ,cup A B, and through the handle E, attached to said top, and to its upper end is attached a knob, to serve as a li andle in operating the plate C.

F is a wire spring coiled around the upper part of the rod D, one end of which rests against the knob of the rod D, and its other end against the handle E, so that the said spring may-hold the said plate raised.

Innsing the device, the cup A B is pressed down into the butter, when a smart blow or pressure upon the knob of the rod D, imprints the device upon the top of the piece of but-ter to be removed. The wire G is then moved across the bottom oi' the cup A B,

' separating the butter within the cup A B from that within the vessel, so that when the cup AB is raised, it may remove the said piece of butter with it Thefpieoe or cake of butter may be removed from the cup A B bypressing down upon the knob of the rod D, holding the plate C upon the top of the said butter, while the said cup A B is raised by means of the handle E, leaving the piece of butter upon a plate or other dish.

I am aware that there are in use, cylindrical cutters to enclose a piece of butter, while a piston de scends and prints the same, and that they are also .provided with four cutters at the bottom 5 but this is l not adapted to eut masses of butter oi' an y shape, withoutleaving odd bits and uncouth shapes behind.

What, therefore, Leste-ern to be my invention, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

A buttercntter, whose form is the sector of a circle, and thereby adapted to eliminate a proportional part of a cylindrical mass, iu the manner described.

A N. J. EATON.

'Witnessesz J. A. EATON, A. K. WELPES. 

